THE NATION: Offensive Weapon

The day after Nikita Khrushchev was
anointed Premier and dictator nonpareil of the Soviet Union (see
FOREIGN NEWS), he was back in business at the same old cold-war
propaganda stand, ready with another thick slice for all comers,
especially the U.S. Ignoring the fact that Russia had just completed a
smashing series of nuclear tests, Khrushchev's government protested the
U.S. tests scheduled for April through August in the Marshall Islands.

Washington was ready. The U.S.'s response: it will go ahead with its
tests. At his press conference, the President had already invited the
world to watch the U.S. demonstration of...